John == John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net writes:
John I also checked Verizon, and they told me they don't serve my
John area. Qwest offered me a maximum of 5 mb/s, not even their max
John speed.
Verizon only deployed in places that they were the incumbent phone
company. Around Portland,
Sorry for being late on this thread, I just discovered that my
subscription was suspended about a week ago for excessive bounces (/me
shakes an angry fist, perhaps prematurely, at SpiritOne/Aracnet's new
spam filter).
All of the phone copper in Portland (proper) pretty much is owned by
Qwest.
On 5/18/2010 7:36 PM, Marvin Kosmal wrote:
All
Just for clarification..
DSL service is sold by the bit not the Byte..
The difference is 8
Correct me if I am wrong..
OK:
The ratio (B/A) is 8.
The difference (B-A) is 7.
Bill
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On Wed, 19 May 2010 12:46:43 -0700
Russell Senior russ...@personaltelco.net dijo:
All of the phone copper in Portland (proper) pretty much is owned by
Qwest. They are required to lease that copper to competitors in
various ways, so you have options for ISP (the people who take your
bits, and
Yes..
I stand corrrected..
Marvin
On 5/19/10, Bill Sheppard w...@hevanet.com wrote:
On 5/18/2010 7:36 PM, Marvin Kosmal wrote:
All
Just for clarification..
DSL service is sold by the bit not the Byte..
The difference is 8
Correct me if I am wrong..
OK:
The ratio (B/A) is 8.
The
Comcast just raised my rates. The increase is trivial, but far more
annoying is that the service is decreasing. Six months ago
speedtest.net reported a high of 3 MB/s. Now it is just over 2 MB/s.
The new rate is 55.59/month, which includes 11.49 for basic TV.
When I say 2 MB/s I mean megabytes
Check availability in your area for Verizon FiOS, which is Fiber Optic
Service.
Faster than cable (depending on the plan you choose) and wy faster than
DSL.
http://www22.verizon.com/Residential/aboutFiOS/Overview.htm?CMP=DMC-CVS_ZZ_ZZ_E_TV_N_X001
Yes there are options for DSL without landline
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:37 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote:
Comcast just raised my rates. The increase is trivial, but far more
annoying is that the service is decreasing. Six months ago
speedtest.net reported a high of 3 MB/s. Now it is just over 2 MB/s.
The new rate is
On Tue, 18 May 2010 00:17:51 -0700
Matt McKenzie lnxkni...@gmail.com dijo:
Check availability in your area for Verizon FiOS, which is Fiber Optic
Service.
I'd sign up for FiOS in a heartbeat if it was available for my address.
Unfortunately I cannot sell my house and move just to get FiOS. I do
On 05/18/2010 04:33 AM, drew wymore wrote:
FWIW I'm paying 25 a month for 7Mbps DSL through Qwest.
Drew-
And, gosh darn Qwest, i'm still paying $28/mo for 1.5Mbps, while they
refuse to commit to a timeline for 7Mbps service to my home and refuse
to stop sending me the junk mail hawking
Dwight Hubbard wrote:
They also try to hide the fact that they don't offer any offerings with
upstream
rates faster than 0.8 Mb/s.
Point to the unhidden facts please. I would like to know.
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On Mon, 17 May 2010, John Jason Jordan wrote:
Comcast just raised my rates. The increase is trivial, but far more
annoying is that the service is decreasing. Six months ago
speedtest.net reported a high of 3 MB/s. Now it is just over 2 MB/s.
The new rate is 55.59/month, which includes 11.49
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:54:21AM -0700, Mike Connors wrote:
When I say 2 MB/s I mean megabytes per second. That is, assuming the
server can feed me as fast as Comcast will let me download it, I can
download a full 700 MB Ubuntu live CD in about six minutes.
Googling around leads me
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.uswrote:
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:54:21AM -0700, Mike Connors wrote:
When I say 2 MB/s I mean megabytes per second. That is, assuming the
server can feed me as fast as Comcast will let me download it, I can
download
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:48 AM, alan a...@clueserver.org wrote:
Depending on where you live you may be able to get DSL/Fiber with faster
speeds. I have been told it is possible to get just DSL without land line,
but I think it depends on the carrier.
I'm using Qwest for two naked (or
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